About the Authors

Yuk Lung Wong

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuk Lung Wong, Ingmar Lautenschläger

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, Division of Barrier Integrity, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany

Ingmar Lautenschläger

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuk Lung Wong, Ingmar Lautenschläger

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, Division of Barrier Integrity, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany

Heike Dombrowsky

Affiliation Division of Barrier Integrity, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany

Karina Zitta

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Berthold Bein

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Thorsten Krause

Affiliation Division of Mucosal Immunology and Diagnostics, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany

Torsten Goldmann

Affiliation Division of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany

Inez Frerichs

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Markus Steinfath

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Norbert Weiler

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Martin Albrecht

martin.albrecht@uksh.de

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YLW IL MA NW IF TK HD. Performed the experiments: YLW IL TG TK. Analyzed the data: YLW IL KZ MA. Wrote the paper: YLW IL KZ BB IF MS NW MA.